"A compendium of information on the occult sciences, magic, demonology, superstitions, spiritism, mysticism, metaphysics, psychical science, and parapsychology, with biographical and bibliographical notes and comprehensive indexes."
"Based on Encyclopedia of occultism by Lewis Spence, London, 1920, and Encyclopaedia of psychic science by Nandor Fodor, London, 1934, substantially revised by Leslie Shepard and supplemented by new material written by him"--T.p. verso